Modernity: Gerrit Rietveld’s set of four Zig Zag chairs (1958) for £60,000, a ‘Paimio’ armchair made by Alvar Alto for Artek (1940s), a set of Poul Henningsen table lamps (1926) from the first year of production for £40,000, and a set of Ib Kofoed Larsen ‘Elizabeth’chairs (1958) for £35,000.

No one is forthcoming about what they are selling, for how much and to whom, but A.i.A. did overhear one dealer comparing shopping styles. “The Europeans walk round for days writing notes, then do all their buying on the Sunday. If the Americans want it, they buy on the spot.” One pair of arty spectacles with a New York City rasp dropped $80,000 on two Warhol drawings at New York’s Cheim & Read with the comment, “I just came off my medication this morning!”

And Scott Reyburn had this:

Dealers at Frieze and at the Pavilion of Art & Design in Berkeley Square, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed resentment and said Frieze Masters was a “distraction.” They said that reservations on works for the VIP day of Frieze had been canceled after the opening of Masters and that with so many events to cover, buyers weren’t making return visits.

Studio Voltaire: Latvian painter Ella Kruglyanskaya, four of Kruglyanskaya’s canvases, priced at $20,000 each, had sold in the show’s earliest hours

Green Gallery: Amy Yao was showing beguiling patterned stepladders that parodied, according to her dealer, the“finish fetish” of LA’s interior decorators. (Two had sold for $10,000 and $7,500 respectively.)

Melanie Gerlis went to PAD and Frieze Masters. She was rewarded with these sales reports:

Modernity: A set of four stained pine, zig-zag chairs (priced at £60,000) designed in the late 1950s by Gerrit Rietveld, which came from the estate of Han Schroeder—one of the first female architects in the Netherlands—went to an overseas buyer.

Galerie Downtown François Laffanour sold a late 1940s sofa and armchair (priced at €250,000) by Jean Royère.

Galerie BSL: sold a 2013 brass screen (€140,000) by Taher Chemirik to a private London buyer within the first half-hour of the fair’s VIP opening on Tuesday.

Priveekollektie: digital works by Dominic Harris were popular, according to the gallery’s co-founder Irving van Dijk. Harris’s Deep Blue Interactive Aquarium, 2012, priced at €95,000, went to a private collector.

Galerie Jean-Christophe Charbonnier: sold some Japanese Edo-period armour, including a full set of armour from the 19th century (priced around €50,000), which went to a private French buyer; it was the collector’s first Japanese acquisition.

David Ghezelbash: a private French collector bought an Etruscan head from the sixth century BC, priced at £265,000.

“The pace is non-stop,” New York-based art adviser Heather Flow said in an interview. “There are a lot of art fairs this week, though I’m not sure if too many good things to see is such a bad problem. The search for the next superstar is gathering momentum. Secondary market prices are astronomical.”

If PAD is a sign for the rest of the week, then art dealers rejoice: the tills were ringing. Within ninety minutes of the fair’s opening scrum (people were fighting to get in, director Patrick Perrin told me, with I’m sure only the mildest hint of exaggeration), several major collectors had bought several major pieces. This rather attractive Japanese suit of armour at Galerie Jean-Christophe Charbonnier had gone, and the Malekis, massive collectors, had bought some choice items.